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17 June 1553: Edward VI (d. 6 July) alters his 'devise', leaving the throne to Lady Jane Grey #otd (NPG)
Self Portrait With Melons, 2022.
Hand-stitched paper collage.
17.5 x 13cms, unframed.
One of a kind.
Body: Photo by David McEnery, c1975.
Head: Self-Portrait With Palette by Pablo Picasso, 1906. Cut from a NPG leaflet, 2016 @twitrartexhibit #tae22
Paula Rego was such an inspiring, influential figure for me - I couldn’t really start my day without a portrait.
(Photograph used as reference is Eamonn McCabe’s Portrait in NPG)
#paularego #inspiration #secretsandstories #obedienceanddefiance #subversivestories
Works by versatile, prolific William Blake Richmond (1842-1921) for #WilliamWednesday: Venus & Anchises (1890 Walker Art Gall), William Morris (1880s NPG), Charity (1910, Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Sq) plus a sumptuous example of aesthetic dress with Mrs Luke Ionides (1879, V&A)
31 May 1555: John Whitgift, future Archbishop of Canterbury is elected a Fellow of Peterhouse Cambridge #otd
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This NPG is so GORGEOUS but DANGEROUS Don't you want her 😍 Grab her now before anyone else!
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Albert Edward Sterner, Max Forrester Eastman, 1918 https://t.co/0tvpVFZz8D #npg #openaccess
18 Mar 1554: The date on which Thomas Wyatt and his well-heeled co-conspirators originally planned to rise - it was Palm Sunday that year. (NPG)
Won this baddass NPG from game night 😎 Cool asf. Good game good game!
Check collection: https://t.co/jFpeLjP3S1
#NearPunkGirls #NEARProtocol $NEAR @nekhrotic
Louis Maurer, Letting The Cat Out of The Bag, 1860 https://t.co/4dERv0hj1N #npg #openaccess
6 Mar 1616: d. Francis Beaumont #otd, playwright, #poet, student of Ben Jonson, close collaborator with John Fletcher. Buried in #Westminster Abbey in May 1616. (NPG)
23 Jan 1606: 4 days before his execution Everard Digby, Gunpowder Plotter, writes a final letter to his children including Kenelm - below. Kenelm would be a privateer , duellist & much else as well as Henrietta Maria’s representative to the Papacy in the 1640s (NPG)